Ship Life

Here's another landmark to add to the still relatively young 2013. As you will most likely already know from my previous posts, I've been waiting to be assigned a ship for my new job. Six weeks ago, whilst on Koh Tao, sitting in the office of a small production company, I got an email. This…

Chief of Police

Today I completed one of those manly life goals that I like to call a man-bition. Today I became the owner of a pick-up truck. It's big, it's blue, it has four doors and a big diesel engine. For those of you who are judging me and thinking 'what do you need a big blue…

Cleaning a Tuk-Tuk

We've had another busy week. Both Mos and I have both had a birthday, we've been to the cinema, twice. And, we bought a latex plantation. After a quite and relaxed day at home, apart from a trip to the cinema, for my birthday, we started to get our stuff together to head back to…

Latex Plantation

This week we've been over in north-east Thailand. Bueng Kan to be specific. As you may have noted previously, this is where my wires family live. Mother, step-father and step-brother. But as she has grown up with her step-father from such a young age, we call him dad. On our previous visit to Bueng Kan…

Khao San, our new dog

At one of the supermarkets Mos and I regularly use, Little C, as we like to call it. It's a BigC, but there is a bigger one further up the road. Anyway, unlike supermarkets in the UK the supermarkets here are normally all raised up, with a mixture of parking, stalls and shops under them. One…

LCCT – Low Cost Carrier Terminal

Once you find out what LCCT stands for (Low Cost Carrier Terminal) it makes you consider paying that £50 more to fly into a different terminal. The LCCT is a terminal of Kuala Lumpur (KUL) airport. It is the international home of AirAsia. Much like Heathrow Terminal 5 is home to British Airways. And like…

Kuala Lumpur MKII

The time has come. My 90-day Non-Immigrant 'B' visa is about to expire. A visa that could be renewed for a further nine months with the addition of a work permit. Sadly, in my role, I technically work on a project by project basis. The work permits that I get issued from the Film Authority…

Sleeping on a Helipad

Mos' friend, Macky, who is a nurse in Bangkok, told us that she was planning on visiting Chiang Mai for a short break. She had just left her job, and had a gap before her new job started. I'd never met Macky before, aside from a few short messages on Facebook. Mos had met her…

Huay Tung Tao Lake

We've now met all of our neighbours, bar one, but they never seem to come outside. Our immediate neighbours are a mother (Inn) and daughter (Daisy, 1) decided to head out to Chiang Mai 'beach'. Those of you that have been to Chiang Mai, or know that it's located in Northern Thailand right up in the mountains…

Elephant Nature Park

As soon as I arrived back in Chiang Mai, from Bangkok, I got a phone call saying that I was going to be picked up at 07:00 in the morning. We were providing production services for Leopard Films in America to film their House Hunters International series. It's an ongoing project that the company has…